The Stanford Shyness Clinic has found 60% of American considers themselves shy? What about you? Do you feel uneasy about walking in a room and networking? Do you go to events and cling to one person the whole time?

You are not alone!

In this webinar, Diane will share with you:

Proven tips to meet and greet people

How to get over your shyness and make networking work for you

Examples of how others build their network one handshake at a time

Techniques to build your network

Learn how to leverage social media to network effectively

Hear some frequent mistakes people make online and how to avoid them

How to talk with executive recruiters as part of your network

Why you need to periodically prune and water your network

Successful ways to reach out to your network

This webinar will help you shape how you network for the rest of your life. It will also prepare you for networking with executive recruiters at the UCLA Anderson Executive Recruiter Networking event on May 16. Join us for this webinar on May 8. Don’t waste 10 years trying to figure out how to do this on your own. Diane will provide easy to adopt and proven techniques you can run with!

ABOUT DIANE DARLING:As principal consultant for Effective Networking, Inc., Diane founded the company on the premise that everyone can learn to network, they just need to find their own style. Combining interactive training, strategic planning and an exploration of the natural fears of networking, Darling demystifies the process by providing techniques that can be immediately implemented.

She has received rave reviews for her seminars and speeches and is increasingly sought after as an expert resource on the subject of networking.

McGraw-Hill commissioned her to write the definitive book on networking called The Networking Survival Guidewhich was published in April 2003 and went into a second printing just 90 days after the book hit the shelves. The book has been translated into Korean and Taiwanese. In 2005, McGraw-Hill published her 2nd book, Networking for Career Success which has since been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Thai.

She has appeared on NBC Nightly News, in The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe. She is a member of the CEO Club. Darling is also a blogger and random columnist for a variety of publications. She's a former columnist for the Boston Business Journal. She recently taught in the MBA program at Boston University.

She has lived in the Philippines, Thailand, Colorado, Indiana, Alabama and now in Boston, MA. Her travels include all seven continents and approximately 60 countries.

Diane's hobbies include watching football, reading, and attempting to play tennis. In order to overcome her fear of public speaking, she took acting and standup comedy classes.